031307P.pdf   01/04/2005  Phillip Ferrell  v.  West Bend Mutual
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  03-1307
                          and No:  03-2846
   Western District of Arkansas   
   Civil case - Contracts. Defendant insurer has sufficient minimum 
   contacts with Arkansas to subject it to personal jurisdiction under 
   Arkansas's long-arm statute; tomato growers who had obtained a 
   judgment against the insured had a cause of action against defendant 
   insurer under Arkansas law; insurer's Wisconsin judgment holding it did 
   not have to defend or indemnify its insured did not bar this action, as 
   plaintiffs were not a party to the suit and the insured, which was bankrupt 
   and judgment-proof, had failed to defend the action; tomato growers' 
   losses were covered by the policy, as the growers sustained property 
   damage within the meaning of the policy; no error in awarding plaintiffs 
   attorneys' fees and interest. 
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Riley and Hansen, Circuit Judges]